Quotes About Falling

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

It does not take a long time to fall to the ground, even from nine stories up. But it took a lifetime for Yetta. It took every single one of the last moments of her life.

You talk of falling in love as if it were a terrible fall: for my part, I should pity a person much more for falling down stairs.

Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a hand behind us that sets to right all imbalances. Why do you think the saints seldom had the temporal power that we mistakenly identify with the fruits of justice? Do you think they needed it, or cared?

I am puffed clay, blown up and set down. That I fall like Adam is not surprising: I plunge, waft, arc, pour, and dive. The surprise is how good the wind feels on my face as I fall. And the other surprise is that I ever rise at all

a brick came down from the roof of one of the houses, and was shattered to fragments at my feet.

Rain The rain keeps falling, Even in my dreams. The skull leaks badly. There's a constant dripping Down the back. The rain, which no one Remembers starting, Keeps falling, Even on the finest days.

But you know what my mother says: "With the right kind of luck you can break your nose falling on grass …

in Czech we have an expression, propadnout lásce, to fall in love. You can't do that in German, can you? In German you just come into love. But in Czech you can fall into it.

Like a star his envied fortune mounted beaming far and wide: Now he sinks in seas of anguish, whelmed beneath a raging tide.

If you fall, you fall, " Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

From mornTo noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,A summer's day; and with the setting sunDropp'd from the zenith like a falling star.

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

What makes all these traps so dangerous is their invisibility. Because most are hard-wired into our thinking process, we fail to recognize them— even when we're falling right into them.

She leaped away from Villiers the moment the note sounded in the air, sadness falling from her like a discarded cloak.

sé caerme. Me he caído muchas veces.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. But I can't help, falling in love with you.

The Empire was falling, the Barbarians were on the move.... What was to be done, except to escape the age? Happy moment, when there is still somewhere to go, when the empty places were accessible and welcoming! We have been dispossessed of everything, even the desert.

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day! Every leaf speaks bliss to me, Fluttering from the autumn tree...

We are ice and snow, we are that trapped state. We are water falling, itinerant and vague, ever seeking the lowest level, trying to collect and connect. We are vapor, raised against our own devices, made nebulous, blown on whatever wind arises. To start again, glacial or not.

Leaves are falling casualties.

People who are saying that they are afraid of heights are usually not actually afraid of heights. They are afraid of falling, which means it's a synonym for losing control. So they have to get in touch with the definitional belief to find out what's really going on.

In 2007, in the early 2007, everybody saw the housing market was falling, and at any given moment a lot of people thought it was going to fall more, and a lot of people thought it was going to rebound. You just didn't know.